Stan
It's a pretty strong statement to say that nobody learns anything. I cited two cases in the past month where this was not true. Our team progessed greatly after being down perhaps as much as 40, and the team we hammered also was still learning. And neither of these games degenerated into a bunch of cheap fouls.
It may be your experience, but I think that the potential benefits of playing games out outweighs the potential issues that you have raised. And I know that MI has some issues with major mis-matches, but that might be an issue for the governing body to handle in some other way (i.e., instead of changing rules, turn on their brains). It's not clear to me that the post-season rules couldn't have been altered in some way to make the lowest teams play their tournament game against a moderately superior team rather than a powerhouse.
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